Game apparatus.



No; 669,374. Patented Mar. 5, mm.

CL W. TARBE T. GAME APPARATUS.

(Applicntion filed Jan. 29, 1600.

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UNITE STATES PATENT CLARENCE WV. TARBET, OF GOLDENDALE, WASHINGTON.

GAME APPARATUS.

$PEGXFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,374, dated. March. 5, 1901.

Application filed January 29,1900. Serial No. 3.255. (No modelJ;

To all 2071 0112. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE W. TARBET, of Goldendale, in the county of Klickitat, State of Washington, have invented a new Game Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, true, and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improvement in the general class of billiard and pool tables.

My game-board proper is four-sided and has a plane surface provided with pockets at its angles and also with three spots for a like 11 umber of balls, which are distinguished, like the spots, by distinctive marks, as red, white, blue. A raised, flanged,and cushioned frame surrounds such board proper, and each of its four sides is divided into three sections, marked corresponding to the said spots and balls in regular succession or order of alternation, as red, white, blue.

In playing the game the three balls are placed on the three corresponding spots. A

' fourth or one ball is used for playing upon any one of the spot-balls, its place in beginning play being anywhere back of a deadline drawn transversely across the board, between one end of the same and the nearest spot.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved gameboard. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bottom of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail section on line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

A indicates the oblong rectangular frame, and C the fiat bottom of the game-board. The said frame has an internal flange a, having a rubber cushion similar to ordinary billiard and pool tables. The bottom 0 is cut away at the corners (see Fig. 2) to provide space for pockets 1) to receive the balls used in playing. Said bottom Cis covered with felt, billiard-cloth, or some analogous material and fits in the frame A in such manner that it may be adjusted higher or lower to diminish or increase the space between itand the cushioned flange a as may be required to accommodate balls of different diameters, it being important that the heightof the beveled edge of the cushion shall behalf the diameter of the balls. Screws or pins 0, which enter holes 0 in the sides of flange A, (see Figs. 1 and 3,) are employed to secure the bottom 0 in any required adjustment.

Each side of the frame A is divided into three sections 1 2 3, which are distinguished in practice by the colors red, White, blue in regular succession or order of alternation.

Upon the central longitudinal line of the bottom board C are arranged three disks or spots to receive or indicate location of three balls, both said spots and balls being indicated by theletters R W B and distinguished in practice bythe colors red, white, blue, corresponding to the different color-sections 1 2 3 of each side of the frame A. The spots are located equidistantly from each other. tween the red disk or spotR and the adjacent end of frame A, to which it is parallel, is a transverse dead-line c behind which the cueball 00 must be placed in beginning play on the board.

The player beginning the game must play the cue-ball first upon the red ball and carom either to white ball or White cushion, and if the player is successful one point is scored in the game. He may begin the game by playing first upon the red cushion, in which case he must carom next to white ball, as he cannot count two cushions in succession unless he plays for three cushions and succeeds in making them in their order red, white, and blue, in which case three points in the game are made. A play of three. balls in succession red, white, and blue would also count 'three points; but a run of red, white, and

blue would only count two points if the cueball is played upon both cushions and balls to get the colors, and in no case can two cushions in succession be used, except in a threecushion play, as described above. If the cueball goes into a pocket, the players turn is ended and the next player takes his turn by placing the cue-ball on the table anywhere back of dead-line, but leaving game-balls where the first player left them. If a gameball goes into a pocket, it is placed upon the spot of its color and the player proceeds as before.

Where experts are playing, the game may be varied and made harder by leaving all game-balls in pockets until the player misses or loses his turn and then again placing them upon their spots for next player.

three distinctive spots arranged equidistantly on the central longitudinal line; the raised and flanged frame surrounding said board proper, and having each of its sides divided into three sections which are respectively distinguished in regular alternation as red, white, blue, and four playing-balls, three of which are colored differently like the said spots'and frame-sections, as shown and described.

OLARENCE l/V. TARBET. Witnesses-z N. B. BROOKS, A. J. NELSON. 

